For Carson, bearing witness to nature, and responding with joy, excitement and delight, fostered a sense of humility.
Kindness, gentleness, delicacy, and a certain modest perspicacity defined Anselm’s approach to others—and to the world at large.
Imagine two couples, each at home for dinner. The first couple spends the whole meal caressing each other’s hair, calling each other cheesy monikers and, after the meal is finished,…
To be estranged from our countries is to be estranged from some version of our selves.
His scholarship and energy were matched only by his insatiable ambition to tackle—and transform—the definitive texts of the Western canon.
Sharif Ahmedov is the only translator of the great Jorge Luis Borges into Uzbek.
If a thoughtful return to Kipling can wake us up from our settler capitalist fantasy, it is worth that return.
Unlike the metaphor, the simile signals its own happening. It deals in images and concepts, setting these next to each other while retaining their separate identities.